CRISP - Sustainable Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Initiative
A Resource Platform for Capacity Building and Partnerships
Refugee Resettlement Needs
Refugee situations continue to increase in scope, scale and complexity. The vast majority of refugees (85 per cent) are hosted in low and middle-income countries. Despite the generosity of host countries and donors, there is an urgent need to share the responsibility for hosting and supporting the world’s growing number of refugees more equitably. While the resettlement landscape has witnessed important progress in the last few years, there has been a doubling of global resettlement needs to reach 1.4 million. Yet, only 4.5 per cent of global resettlement needs were met in 2019.
Three-Year Strategy on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways
The Global Compact on Refugees envisaged the development of a Three-Year Strategy (2019-2021) on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways as a key vehicle to grow resettlement and advance complementary pathways. This UNHCR-led, multi-stakeholder Strategy is the result of wide-ranging consultations with relevant stakeholders. It is both a roadmap for expansion over three years and an ambitious blueprint to develop third-country solutions through a vision that will continue to be relevant to achieving the goals of the Global Compact on Refugees in the longer term.
About the CRISP
The Sustainable Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Initiative or CRISP, is a crucial tool to implement the actions identified under the Strategy. It is a UNHCR-IOM led initiative that aims to support States and key stakeholders to establish, expand or renew resettlement programmes and advance complementary pathways of admission. The CRISP provides targeted capacity building in partnership with diverse actors, including Champion States, to achieve quality, scalable and sustainable programmes. The CRISP is also a tangible way for States to support the expansion of third country solutions and make concrete contributions and pledges towards the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees.
This website aims to be a resource platform for capacity building and partnerships. It also gives a statistical overview of refugees that were processed under the CRISP as well as the UNHCR-IOM joint mechanism, the Emerging Resettlement Countries Joint Support Mechanism (ERCM) that ran from 2016-2019.
For more information on activities, please see the CRISP Newsletter (Issue 1, November 2020).
